Dianne Joy Hebulan

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Women living under Islamic State’s control in Iraq and Syria are facing increasingly harsh restrictions on movement and dress, which are rigorously enforced by religious police and are leading to resentment and despair among moderate Muslims.<p>Residents of Mosul, Raqqa and Deir el-Zour have told the …

Throughout our hours and hours of travel and hotel investigating at Oyster.com, we've come across quite a few photo fakeouts: Situations where the hotel website showed the property as one way, and we found it to be a totally different way when we arrived. Like in the cases of "crowd-free" beaches, …

By James and Nancy Chuda founders of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World<p>What a dream! We spent our <i>Midnight in Paris</i> and every waking hour that followed in a state of unbelievable reality. Ensconced like a pair of marionettes, we were dazzled, spoiled and most of all luxuriated in one of …

She was Annie Hall without the neurosis. She wore pants! She was beautiful, witty, gregarious, and a clever verbal sparring partner with each of her leading men. Born in 1907, Katharine Hepburn, the legendary actress, was hero and role model for women who were not afraid to be intelligent - and she …

You want free checked bags and extra legroom. Priority boarding sounds nice too.<p>But those perks are reserved for road warriors, the elite fliers among us, right? Not necessarily.<p>Fliers in the Southland can reach elite status with as few as six annual cross-country trips. (Generally, if you take …

Despite the lingering California drought, 2015 could be one of the best years for wildflowers in a decade at Death Valley National Park.<p>That's the word from the Death Valley Natural History Assn. which last week reported "patches of green" and a few early blooms at the park on its Facebook page.<p>A …

Partly because I wrote Lonely Planet’s guide to travel writing and partly because I’ve been a travel writer for more than 30 years, people assume that travel writing is easy for me.<p>It isn’t.<p>It’s painful.<p>And exhilarating.<p>But it almost always begins with pain.<p>For writers who despair when a story …

"As far as lighting conditions, I'm interested in a very certain type of light that I've only experienced in the polar regions. It's a very monochromatic world. But there is color, and it's very subtle."<p>"Icebergs are very much like us in that they have their own unique personality. They behave in …

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Danes gathered at torch-lit memorials around the country on Monday, commemorating victims of deadly attacks on a synagogue and an event promoting free speech that shocked a nation proud of its record of safety and openness.<p>Singing John Lennon’s Imagine, …

Long ago, about 36 million years before today, a raft of monkeys found themselves adrift in the Atlantic. They’d been blown out to sea by an intense storm that had ripped up the African coast, and now a mat of floating vegetation was the closest thing to land for miles in all directions. But luck …